NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Detection of Explosives and CBRN (Using Terahertz) TERA-MIR 2012

ARW No: ISEG.NUKR.ARW 984431
LOCATION: Cesme, Izmir, Turkey
DATES: 3 to 6 November 2012
TITLE: NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Detection of Explosives and CBRN (Using Terahertz)
NATO Co-Chair: Prof. Mauro F. Pereira
Partner Country Co-Chair: Prof. I. Sukhoivanov

PROGRAMME, TIMETABLE AND ORGANIZATION

Invited Talks - 25 minutes talk + 5 minutes for questions = 30 minutes

Oral Presentations - 15 minutes talk + 5 minutes for questions = 20 minutes

Day 1 - 3rd November 2012

10:00-10:30 Opening ceremony/organization details

10:30 – 11:00 - inv Key speaker - H.Altan - "Terahertz Imaging and Point Detection"

Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:00 - inv Key speaker- M.Razhegui - "State of the art infra red laser diodes with high power, high WPE, single mode, CW operation at RT"

12:00-12:30 - M.F. Pereira - "Intersubband dispersive gain media"
12:30-13:00 - S. Gryshenko - "Population dynamic in quantum cascade GaN/AlGaN photodetector structure"

Lunch 13:00 – 1500

15:00-15:30 - inv Key speaker F.Tittel - "Mid Infrared laser based gas sensor technologies for environmental monitoring, medical diagnostics, industrial and security applications"

15:30-16:00 - inv Key speaker M.Guina - "Recent advances in the development of high power mid-IR VECSELs"

16:00 – 16:30 - inv Key speaker inv Key speaker M. Geiser - "Polaritons and quantum cascade emitters"

Coffee Break

17:00-17.30 - inv Key speaker Elliott Brown- "THz Biomedical Imaging: Phenomenology, System Design, and Performance"

17:30-17:50 - S. Barbieri - "Continuous-wave coherent imaging with THz quantum cascade lasers using electro-optic harmonic sampling"

17:50-18:10 - A. Szerling, "Influence of the mesa performance on the threshold current and slope efficiency of AlGaAs/GaAs quantum cascade lasers"

18:30 – 20:30 Poster Session I

Dinner 20:30

Day 2 - 4th November 2012

09:30 – 10:00 - inv. Key speaker 9:30-10:00 inv. Key speaker A.Wacker - "Unfolding of free carrier absorption for THz radiation in heterostructures"

10:00-10:30 inv Key speaker A. Valavanis - "Feedback interferometry and diffuse-reflectance imaging with terahertz quantum cascade lasers"

10:30-11:00 inv Key speaker I Al-Naib, "THz nonlinear optics"

Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:00 inv Key speaker C.Sirtori - "THz emitters based on strong light-matter interaction"

12:00 -12:20 - M. Klymenko - "Optical gain modulation of quantum-cascade lasers via interband optical pumping"
12:20-12:40 - N. Palka - "A simple method for identification of covered RDXbased explosives"
12:40-13:00 - M. Schwerdtfeger, "A portable THz spectroscopy system for the inspection of bottled liquids"

Lunch 13:00 – 15:00

15:00-15:30 - inv Key speaker L. Shvartsman - "Bipolar THz-lasing structures based on InAs-GaSb coupled quantum wells and their potential for security checks"

15:30-16:00 - inv Key speaker V. Matvejev, "THz bio-chemical sensing capabilities with high performance SIW based sensor on nL-volume liquids in capillary tubes"

16:00 - 16:30 - inv Key speaker G Almasi - "Towards generation of mJ-level ultrashort THz pulses by optical reflection"

Coffee Break

17:00-17:30 - inv key Speaker F. Kusmartsev - "Terahertz Wave Emitting From Flux-Flow Oscillators, Long Josephson Junctions of a Complex Shape and Detection of Explosives"

17:30 – 18:00 -inv Key Speaker V. Trofimov - "Computer Processing of Images Captured with a Commercially Available THz Camera at long Distances"

18:00-18:30 -inv Key Speaker S. Vainshtein - "Transmission Subterahertz Imaging Utilizing Milliwatt-Range Nanosecond Pulses from Miniature, Collapsing-Domain-Based Avalanche Source"

18:30 – 20:00 Poster Session II

Dinner 20:00

Day 3 - 5th November 2012

9:30-10:00 - inv Key speaker V.Vaks - "Sub-THz spectroscopy for security related gas detection"

10:30 – 11:00 - Lutfi Ozyuzer, "Detection of Terahertz Waves from Superconducting Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ Intrinsic Josephson Junctions"

Coffee Break

11:30-12:00 - inv Key speaker A.Krotkus - "Highly mismatched III-V alloye for THz optoelectronic applications"

12:00-12:30 - inv Key speaker S.Lynch - "Quantum manipulation of donor Rydberg states in silicon using coherent THz Radiation"

12:30-13:00 - inv Key speaker W.Knap - "Silicon technology for security imaging/screening up to 1 THz"

Lunch 13:00 - 15:00

15:00 - 20:00 Half a day devoted to formulating conclusions and recommendations starting with a roundtable in MIR and THz application in security area problems/possible science for peace proposals

Dinner 20:00

Day 4 - 6th November 2012

Departure